Message-ID: <20021012223129.A27891@camille.indigoindustrial.co.nz>
Date: 2002-10-12T09:31:29Z
From: Jason Turner
Subject: Learning R: which book to choose?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210121940380.1008-100000@mel222.sggw.waw.pl>; from krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:44:03PM +0200
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:44:03PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote:
> I am new to R. I am going to by one of the following book:
>
> 1.
> William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley. Modern Applied Statistics
> with S-Plus.
> Third Edition. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98825-4.
>
> 2.
> The Fourth Edition of the book from point 1.
>
> 3.
> `S Programming'
> by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley
> Springer. ISBN 0-387-98966-8, 2000.
It depends. Do you want to use R for analysis, or to write your
own extensions? Probably the first, I'd guess; extension writing
usually comes later.
Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, 4th edition (MASS4) is a good
introduction if you're already a statistician. If not, a a good
introductory book is
Introductory Statistics with R. Peter Dalgaard. Springer.
ISBN 0387954759
MASS4 is certainly more complete than ISwR, but if you're not already
a statistician, it's a difficult starting book (challenging, but not
impossible).
Cheers
Jason
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